Wilson Pickett - Funky Broadway lyrics
rate meFunky Broadway 2:33 Trk 5
(Arlester 'Dyke' Christian)
Wilson Pickett
w/B. Miller - trumpet, C. Chalmers & J. Mitchell
Tenor Sax, F. Newman - baritone sax
S. Oldham - keybrds, C. Moman & J. Johnson - guitar
T. Cogbill - elc bass, R. Hawkins - drums.
Atlantic Single # 2430
Recorded: Fame Studios, Muscle Shoals, AL.
Pop Chart #8 Aug 5, 1967
Album: The Very Best Of Wilson Pickett
Rhino Records #71212 1993
Transcriber: Awcantor@aol.com
Every town I go in
There's a street, uh! h'uh!
Name of the street, club
H'uh! Funky, *Funky Broadway
Down on Broadway, h'uh!
There's a nightclub, now, now
Name of the nightclub, now baby
Funky Funky Broadway
Down on Broadway, yeah
There's a crowd now h'uh!
Name of the crowd, baby
Broadway Crowd
Down on Broadway, yeah
There's a dance step, ha!
Name of the dance
Funky Funky Broadway
Hey! h'uh!
Wiggle your legs now, baby
Shake your head, now
Ooo, h'uh
Do the Shing-A-Ling now, baby
Shake, shake, shake, now
You don't know, how baby, hot
You don't know now, woman
Oow!
Do the Funky Broadway
HEY!
(Lord have mercy!)
(sax & instrumental)
Oh, you got me feelin' alright
Dirty, filthy, Broadway
Don't I like Broadway, h'uh!
That Broadway
Look-a-here!
Down on Broadway
There's a woman
Name of the woman, h'uh!
Broadway Woman
HEY!
FADES-
Down on Broadway-e-he, yeah!
There's a man, h'uh!
Name of the man, now, now, now, now.
*This Broadway Street referred to is in Phoenix, AZ
where Arlester 'Dyke' Christian (member of Dyke and
the Blazers) wrote the song while they performed
and lived here. It was first released in Phoenix
on the Artco label in 1966, charted #65 April 15, 1967
Top Pop being picked up (by the) LA Original Sound
Label single #64.
DOD 03/13/1971, Phoenix, Arizona
Broadway St. is still here, basically the same.
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Thanks to anita
